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Infrastructure as object and producer ! ! Dr. Richard Brook | Manchester School of Architecture ! r.brook@mmu.ac.uk ! ! SHU Space & Place conference | Investigating Infrastructure | Wednesday 13 June 2018 !

Backwater Reservoir, Angus. Baxter, Clark & Paul (Architects) & Babtie, Shaw and Morton (Engineers) for East of Scotland Water Board, 1964-1969 ! ! SOURCE: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacelightorder/13897074424 !

Yona Friedman, Ville Spatiale, 1958-70 ! ! SOURCES: Various (web) !

Louis Kahn. Wound up parking towers and poem SOURCE: Architectural Design, November 1962

!"#$%&'()&%' Alison and Peter Smithson, Hauptstadt Berlin [competition entry] 1957 !

Notation and symbols for urban transport ! ! SOURCE: Richards, B. (1966) New Movement in Cities (London: Studio Vista) !

Notation and serial views, View from the Road ! ! SOURCE: Lynch, K. & Appleyard, D. (1964) The View from the Road (Cambridge MASS: MIT Press) !

Cooling Towers and Water Towers, Bernd and Hiller Becher SOURCE: Becher, B. & Becher H. (2006) Cooling Towers (Cambridge MASS: MIT Press); Becher, B. & Becher H. (2006) WaterTowers (Cambridge MASS: MIT Press)

Grain elevators, Bernd and Hiller Becher ! ! SOURCE: Becher, B. & Becher H. (2006) Grain Elevators (Cambridge MASS: MIT Press) !

Canadian Grain Stores and Elevators SOURCE: Le Corbusier (1927) Towards a New Architecture , translated by Frederick Etchells, published London 1948, reprinted 1974, p.29

SOURCE: Pollard, D. (1971) ‘Regional Plan implementation: infrastructure’, Town and Country Planning , Nov. 1971, pp. 500-505 !

Microwave backbone towers. GPO London & Heaton Park !

Cooling towers in the landscape at Fiddler’s Ferry, Warrington and Ironbridge, Shropshire. ! ! SOURCE: Flickr user, Tarboat. !

“Thousands of people turned up to watch the planned demolition of the Tinsley Cooling Towers in Sheffield at 3am on Sunday 24th August 2008. They'd been camping out since teatime. Some had portable gas stoves, some brought their young children tucked up in duvets in the back of their cars.” ! ' ! ! SOURCE: ITV.com !

Magnox-reactor nuclear power station at Trawsfynydd. Construction of the plant, designed by architect Basil Spence to look like ‘a castle in the landscape’, started in 1959 and lasted six years. ! ! SOURCE: https://geotopoi.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/trawsfynydd-power-station/ !

The Queen photographed at the opening of Scammonden Water in October 1971. In the background is Scammonden Bridge over the Deanhead cutting, the middle ground shows the slope of the dam, leading up to the M62 carriageway and in the foreground is the bridge to the valve tower above the bellmouth overflow. SOURCE: Concrete Quarterly, Summer 1972, p.26

Dounreay nuclear power station – currently being decommissioned. ! ! SOURCE: https://www.flickr.com/photos/13422316@N00/2822118107 !

Les Halles, Paris. ! ! SOURCE: Skyscrapercity forum !

Archizoom – No Stop City. The No-stop City is an instrument of emancipation. “The idea of an inexpressive, catatonic architecture, outcome of the expansive forms of logic of the system…” ! ! SOURCE: Branzi, A. (2006) No Stop City: Archizoom Associati (Orleans: Editions HYX) !